WordPress News

WordPress job board gets a redesign

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

The jobs.wordpress.net website has received a redesign, bringing it in sync with the branding of most of the other WordPress.org facilities. The website was acquired by Matt Mullenweg at the same time as Weblog Tools Collection. It's mostly unrelated to…

Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

BusinessDesign

Philip Arthur Moore is the Premium Theme team lead at Automattic. I'm thrilled to have been able to ask Philip some questions about WordPress.com premium themes, their processes, and working at Automattic. His answers are thorough and very insightful, and…

Time to go home

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

WordPress News

You know you've done this to at least one or two websites. Well, now when you type /wp-admin into Github, you can have a good laugh. This is the proper way to start your week. h/t Dominik Schilling.

Get started with the Heartbeat API

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

Development

WordPress 3.6 introduced the Heartbeat API. It's an exciting API that opens up a whole bunch of possibilities for various core features or plugins, or even themes, to utilize. Pippin Williamson gives a nice introduction and example use case for…

Social navigation menu with Genericons

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

WordPress News

Justin Tadlock walks you through creating a menu for your social networks, making use of CSS attribute selectors. He shows you how to do it all with the Genericons icon font. This is actually part two, but you can check…

Using has_shortcode with WordPress 3.6

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress 3.6 introduced a new has_shortcode function. See how you can use it to enqueue scripts and styles within your theme and / or plugin.

Issue tracker for WordPress documentation

Curtis McHale

August 16, 2013

WordPress News

Documentation is a lot of work and it's hard to even know where to start. It looks like an issue tracker may be in the works for it though so we can report bugs and dive in on things that…

A guide to pluggable functions

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

Development

Curtis McHale has written a nice three part series on WP Lift offering a guide to pluggable functions in WordPress. For those unaware, pluggable functions make it easy for other developers to override your functions in their own plugins and…

Apply Filters is a WordPress development podcast

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

WordPress News

Pippin Williamson and Brad Touesnard are starting a brand new WordPress podcast specifically about development, for developers, called Apply Filters. First, they get an A+ for the name. My own site title may hint as to why I like such…

FeedPress, a Feedburner alternative

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

WordPress News

After reading this article, I decided to try out FeedPress, a Feedburner alternative for tracking RSS and utilizing many features similar to Feedburner's own offering. I just switched to it, so I may do a more in-depth review once I…

AB Press Optimizer wants to be your WordPress A / B testing solution

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

WordPress News

Ivan Lopez has released a new commercial WordPress plugin called AB Press Optimizer that's aiming to be the de facto WordPress A/B testing solution. If you've never experimented with A/B testing, you're missing out. I've seen results from theme and…

WordPress functions you may not have heard of

Elliott Stocks

August 15, 2013

Development

Here are some commonly unknown WordPress functions I've come across when developing with WordPress. A few little gems that I wish I discovered long before I needed them.

Rethinking WordPress widget administration

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

The team at WebDevStudios has done some pretty complete visual mockups of what they view as an improved widget / sidebar management experience. I really like where they are heading. It's more visual and more consistent with where other parts…

Developing for WordPress? Keep your shit secure

mikejolley

August 14, 2013

Security

In this article I talk about the current state of the wordpress.org repository backed up by recent statistics, and give advice on keeping plugins and themes secure during development.

The freelancer’s guide to long term contracts

Curtis McHale

August 14, 2013

Business

This is a great ebook for anyone looking to get in to long term contracts with clients. Eric walks you through the benefits and pitfalls of the practice. He is a seriously smart dude.

Contribute to the future of the WordPress admin dashboard

Brian Krogsgard

August 14, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Hate the WordPress admin dashboard? Now's a good time to voice your opinion. Dave Martin is looking into rethinking the dashboard, potentially for WordPress 3.8. He's put a survey on the Make WordPress Core blog where you can voice your…